Why Are 6 Countries Fighting Over the South China Sea?

In this video, we retrace on maps the evolution of the conflict that today confronts six opposing countries in the South China Sea.
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Musics (YouTube Audio library)
Decimate - Jeremy Blake
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Software: Adobe After Effects
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Chapters
00:00 Context
01:47 First sustainable settlements
03:14 French-Chinese competition
04:25 Vietnam and the Philippines
05:42 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
07:11 China's rise to power
09:00 Chinese domination
10:55 Current situation

[androidguy-]

It's about time. I live in Southeast Asia and this is the most hotly debated topic in politics...

[iamjohnfarlow]

The sudden unexpected segue from controversial geopolitics to a Dreamworks film made me laugh way harder than it should have.

[Mecrobb]

This is hands down one of the best YouTube channels around. Your team makes fantastic videos, thank you all so much for the well researched and highly educational videos!

[grizwoldphantasia]

My only take on the whole mess is that looking at the eight-nine-ten-eleven dash line, it is ridiculous to expect anyone else to accept them owning so much ocean so far from their coast and so close to so many other countries' coasts. It would be like the US claiming to own the Gulf of Mexico, any northern European country claiming to own the entire Baltic Sea, or any Mediterranean country claiming to own the entire Mediterranean.

[hfh]

Prime Minister Pham Van Dong's dispatch did not agree that Hoang Sa and Truong Sa belonged to China, only saying that Vietnam respected the 12-nautical mile sea area that China claimed sovereignty over. The dispatch did not mention Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, China was very vague when talking about them.

[haidangnguyen]

Did Australia behave similarly to China in claiming the seas near Indonesia, Papua New Gunea etc? Can you please do a video about that?

[Trome]

Funny I was just thinking about Geohistory about an hour ago and was wondering when you would upload again!

[vengeflly]

Philippine media should take note of this to not have poor educated guesses and reckless stances. Government too.

[goonrJO]

Imagine a world which we all got along?

We would be landing men in the far reaches of the galaxy instead of claming petty islands

[m.hughmungus]

China? You mean "WEST TAIWAN" ?

[qwewqwerq]

Hey, your video is informative and thorough but there is one misleading point that I need to clarify and fix. The official statement of Pham Van Dong, the prime minister of North Vietnam at that time, only agreed on the 12 nautical miles of territorial waters extending from the coastline of mainland China (today it is called EEZ) and DID NOT recognise anything about the sovereignty of over the Spratly islands and Paracel Islands. It is clear that the distance from Paracel archipelago to Hainan is over 220 nautical miles and that from Spratly archipelago to Hainan is over 600 nautical miles so how can they are within 12 nautical miles of territorial waters from the coastline of China???

[hijodelsoldeoriente]

This video is actually very bad at explaining the Philippine claim. For that, I recommend lectures from Former Justice Antonio Carpio who led the arbitration case against China. The official and legal Philippine claim dates back from the Spanish era NOT Tomas Cloma. Even Carpio emphasized that during the arbitration, our delegation did not use Cloma's claim as evidence. We have not just historical, but legal claims as provided during the Arbitration in The Hague. This includes maps like the Carta General del Archipielgo Filipino from 1875 (If I'm not mistaken) which is based from even older maps of the Spanish Philippines and reprints from the American era. We even have records of mapping the depths of the shoals and the high tide elevations including the name that we still use even today. Moreover, We have a plethora of Treaties from Paris, Washington, and San Francisco. Clearing ambiguities even from the claim that Japan relinquished its claim to the Spratlys back to China.

Tomas Cloma is the weakest argument for the Philippine claim to the point that it wasn't even used by the Philippine lawyers in The Hague despite us winning. And personally-speaking and as a Filipino, Tomas Cloma's claim is beyond stupid.

[magnetospin]

Countries are fighting over it because it has great strategic value. None of the other reason matters. I mean, why do you think the US doing there eight thousand miles away from home if there's no strategic value?

[egerfwc]

hello, i'mma fan of your vids for 2 years now

[sanexpreso]

Thanks to China, Southeast Asia is developing

[WORLDCRUSHER]

lmao "Freedomland" holy based

[jabber]

"what is so hard to understand about a dotted line?"-China

[thanglauc]

China didn't defeat South Vietnam in 1974, South Vietnam defeated themselves

[Sarx]

Who is here before the invasion of Taiwan in 2026?

[westwoodnik]

Any reason we can't call the northern chunk of water the Paracel Sea, and the southern chunk the Spratly Sea? No?